Knives and Ice Picks Okey-Dokey with the GOP

[MrBenchley]

Yes, pResident Weakenstupid's party of morons are actually floating a proposal to let airline passengers take ice picks, razor blades, and knives on board...and only a real cynic would suggest that it's because the corrupt drunk and his party of goons and loons desperately need another 9/11 type incident to try to turn around their sinking poll numbers before the midterm elections....

"The nation's largest flight attendants union yesterday questioned a federal government proposal to end the ban on knives, ice picks and razor blades on board commercial airplanes.
"As the front-line personnel with little or no effective security training or means of self defense, such weapons could prove fatal to our members," Patricia A. Friend, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said in a letter to Edmund S. "Kip" Hawley, the new leader of the Transportation Security Administration. "They may not assist in breaking through a flightdeck door, but they could definitely lead to the deaths of flight attendants and passengers."
The TSA is reviewing security procedures at the nation's airports to determine whether they protect against current terrorist threats. An internal TSA document last week detailed proposals that focus on protecting the nation from an inflight suicide bombing attack and suggested that certain categories of passengers, such as high-ranking government officials and airline crews, could be exempt from security screening. The proposals also included a possible end to the ban on certain items allowed in carry-on luggage."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601467_pf.html

By the way, why would "high ranking government officials" need to be exempt from screening? It couldn't have anything to do with the Republican piece of shit caught trying to sneak his handgun on a plane, could it?

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=1799771

[Fleshdancer]

1. I assume this would include box cutters?

So what exactly is the point of waiting in a security line for 30 minutes, taking off my shoes and getting groped by a stranger if we're going to go back to allowing the same weapons on the plane that were used on 9/11? Does the TSA not remember the box cutters? What am I missing here?

[kestrel91316]

4. The whole point of the search is submission to authority, not safety.

[Fleshdancer]

7. good point. n/t

[MrBenchley]

8. And much of the objection to the search

is outrage that white people are being treated just ilke everybody else...(and, at the big airports, by mostly non-white peons).

[kestrel91316]

14. Oh, please. Leave race out of this. I said nothing about race.

[MrBenchley]

5. Plumbing the depths of stupidity

Hard to see anything this policy has going for it...

[etherealtruth]

2. "knives, ice picks and razor blades ..."

Forgive me if this is naive: Aren't box cutters, essentially, a cross between razor blades and knives?

Just askin' ...

[MrBenchley]

6. You got that right...

and they'd be allowed back on planes under this imbecilic scheme...

[underpants]

3. Some or more equal than others

"high ranking government officials"

[elehhhhna]

9. WTH does one need a 4 inch blade for on a plane? Hello?

[MrBenchley]

10. Remember, after 9/11, there was a right wing proposal...

...to let passengers carry handguns onto planes. I wonder if you can guess what knot of screwlooses with the initials NRA came up with that imbecilic scheme...

[elehhhhna]

13. shit why not grenades then?

[ikri]

11. Can someone please explain

What circumstances you would ever need an ice pick in your carry-on luggage?

:shrug:

[MrBenchley]

12. The air conditioning gets turned up too high?

Sharon Stone tries to join the mile high club?

[leesa]

15. Because they know 9-11 was a con job.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. This whole fucking 'security search' is just so much bullshit and window

dressing. They whole fucking 'ceremony' involved in being allowed to fly ..... it is ignomineous, demeaning, and disrespectful. A very public way of making we sheep know our place. Get used to submitting to the authority of government.

I fly because I have to ... not because I want to. And I dread the whole fucking mess of it all.